Tag: video games
#oneaday Day 835: All night long
Remember how yesterday I said a group of friends and I were going to play Big Walk "this afternoon"? Yeah, well, we started in the afternoon, my time... and concluded twelve fucking hours later. I have never, ever had a multiplayer session so long that the batteries in my headset went flat. Until now! (It's...
#oneaday Day 834: Gaming update
One of the things I was originally thinking about doing with MoeGamer was doing more regular "updates" on what I've been playing recently. I still haven't actually done that -- at least partly because I haven't determined a good way to do it; perhaps a weekly "What I've Been Playing" column? -- so for now,...
Microsoft Slaps Hours Limits On Xbox Game Pass Cloud Gaming
There's enshittification, and then there's enshittification. Allow me to give you an example of each. For what we'll call enshittification classic, there's Xbox's Game Pass service. A mere two years ago, Microsoft made all kinds of changes to Game Pass to coincide with a serious slowdown of subscriber adoption. Those changes included doing away with...
yard work simulator got a sequel before i got a lawn
a joke about yard-work simulators became an unfortunately complete survey of gaming’s most specific genre, just before the free prologue arrives.
Sacrosanct. [ARCAEA 7.0 SPOILERS]
An analysis of the (real) title of Arcaea 7.0's final secret
Take-Two’s Leak Burying DMCA Attempts Snared GameStop & Gaming Journalist That Did Nothing Wrong
I have mostly stayed away from the whole saga surrounding the drip-drip leaks of Grand Theft Auto 6 content prior to the big reveal on Netflix because, frankly, I am quite wary of giving companies the kind of guerilla marketing wins that sometimes look like this sort of thing. That being said, I really don't...
this might be my dream mobile controller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVv7j_S1h74 Source: Well this is different… MCON Controller - YouTube
#oneaday Day 818: Gaming is doing everything it can to drive its oldest fans away
I've been playing video games for as long as I can remember existing. I grew up playing games on the Atari 8-bit and ST home computers, and since then, I have followed along with the explosive growth and technological advancement of the medium every step of the way. And yet today, in 2026, I feel...
Sony Tells Courts Any ‘Reasonable Customer’ Knows Digital Purchases Are Actually Licenses
Sony's ability to generate anger lately is pretty impressive. After the company announced that there would be no more physical media versions of games made starting in 2027, to the resounding anger of many people, Sony also demonstrated yet again that it's capable of ripping away the digital "purchases" people had made once its own...
Knowing Someone Through Games
I read a post on the Strange Voyages blog titled 9 Games to Know Me (HT Bubbles Weekly). It caught my interest because the concept struck me as similar (albeit not identical) to my September 2023 article titled Ranking My Big Impression Video Games (see simple list version), wherein I ranked the 12 video games...
Kan Gao on Why He Uses RPG Maker
Kan Gao is the creator of the successful indie To the Moon series. I am not personally a fan of To the Moon. I tried the first entry and it just was not working for me, so I never finished. But despite not being a fan of the series, I read with some interest a...
Review: GRAVHOUNDS Trailer
Rating: 7/10
#oneaday Day 811: Playing a game with no "point"
While out on a walk this evening, I was listening to the soundtrack of a game that I really love, played a lot some years ago... and haven't really touched since. That game is A Valley Without Wind. As my thoughts wandered during my little 2km circuit of the Common, I started to think about...
All Games Are Zero-Player Games
A meditation on what happens before the button is pressed, if it ever is
Sony Keeps Getting Punched In The Face Over Going Disc-less In Unrelated Places
If Sony thought that the outrage over its decision to make the next PlayStation entirely disc-less was going to dissipate quickly, it was wrong. There are actually multiple organic campaigns to protest Sony's decision to ditch physical media now. We already talked about the plans for a purchase and usage blackout of all things PlayStation...
#oneaday Day 807: Atarimania got a new look
After many years of rocking the same distinctive and still-functional look, Atarimania, the massive Atari software database, has finally updated its visual style. And from a brief glance over, it looks great! For the unfamiliar, Atarimania is a place where you can go to look up pretty much any piece of software that has ever...
#oneaday Day 805: Quarter-circle forward
I have long been intimidated by fighting games. I'm not sure exactly when this started, and there are still some fighting games I do enjoy -- most notably the Dead or Alive games, which I've always felt have been the closest I've come to genuinely "getting" one of these games. And I would love to...
Videogames For Hearts and Minds
More and more, the military is using games to influence.
#oneaday Day 801: Eeeeeeees
After getting what I thought was "caught up" on the series a few years back (correction: a decade ago. Fucking hell), I am now very behind on Falcom's excellent Ys series. And, despite already having two "big games" on the go -- Suikoden and Yakuza 6 -- I am severely tempted to start correcting that....
Random Friends for an Hour or Two
Fortnite is the new Friendster
Dev Kills Cloud Version Of Game On Switch, Offers Discount To Rebuy It For Switch 2
We've talked a great deal about the Stop Killing Games movement and those discussions have typically traveled along two paths of importance. On the one hand, the movement is very important to those of us that care about the preservation of video games. A huge problem with allowing developers and publishers to simply shutdown backend...
First Impressions of RuneScape Dragonwilds
Can a new RuneScape game really be good? First impression: yes.
List of Deep Rock Galactic Incidents
Working with the Deep Rock Galactic mining company is relatively safe. [Citation Needed] Here’s a list of the times it wasn’t.
Sonic Is Coming To Fortnite
No longer a rumor
#oneaday Day 795: Titties - deal with them
There's been Discourse happening today! Specifically on that strange intersection between the "cosy" and "wholesome" spaces, and weird misogynistic, sexphobic, neo-Puritanical behaviour. Much has been written by people much smarter than me about how the "cosy" and "wholesome" spaces are actually not all that wholesome at all -- and in fact can harbour some of...
Persona 4 Dungeons Were Stressful?
Gamer Braves conducted an interesting interview with Wada Kazuhisa, who is producer of the upcoming Persona 4 Revival. Long-time NLJ readers may know that I am a Persona 4 fan, although I am not particularly excited for what would be my third version of P4 (I had the original several years before Golden came out)....
Used Game Stores in an All Digital World
Much digital ink has been spilled on the slow decline of physical video games (including by yours truly). In a reply post by Jake at An Almost Anonymous Blog titled The importance of owning physical (and digital) media when possible, he noted that the demise of physical games will result in the corresponding demise of...
Battleteria Launched!
Today I launch a game that is probably my biggest ever - Battleteria. This project has been my game since the start of the year (with the exception of a month and a half where I worked on another project). I wanted to learn a few concepts in Pico-8. Sprite rotation, storing and retrieving levels,...
Sony Gives Its Disc-Loving Customers A Giant Middle Finger
Just a few weeks ago, Sony announced that it would stop producing games on physical media starting in 2028 and a very loud portion of Sony's customers lost their freaking minds. And, in this writer's opinion, for very good reason. Having no physical media option for your games is going to make game preservation efforts...
I Love Fighting Games (Not Playing Them)
I bought Smash Bros, Tekken, Street Fighter, Skullgirls, and a joystick at the beginning of Lockdown. I was sure FGC (fight game community) was going to be where I made my home in my late thirties.
#oneaday Day 786: Lunchtime games
I apparently completely forgot to write anything yesterday. To be fair, I was mildly hungover and thus didn't really want to do much other than play Terranigma, which I made some excellent progress on. I think I'm coming towards the end of that game, so I'll have more to write about it over on MoeGamer...
Splatoon Raiders: thank cod it’s not a roguelike
I'm sure it was exceedingly tempting for the team behind Splatoon Raiders to make the game into a roguelike. After all, the very design of the game arguably lends itself particularly well to what we today understand as "the roguelike formula"... even if that has, over the years, somewhat diverged from the original meaning of...
#oneaday Day 784: Playing a dead game
People in Steam reviews like to declare a game "dead" when the author of said game hasn't updated it for more than about two weeks, but we all know that's just entitled little shits who don't understand that sometimes a creative work is actually finished. However, there absolutely are "dead" games out there, by varying...
A Blackout Protest Over Sony Ditching Disks Is Brewing
Sony's decision to stop producing PlayStation discs starting in 2028 was met with a ton of initial backlash, especially in the wake of Sony reminding its customers yet again that a digital purchase of content isn't actually a purchase of content at all and what you've bought can be ripped away from you with the...
Playing the Games We Have
The video game industry is in a cynical, exploitative state with unfinished AAA releases, microtransactions, rising hardware costs, and studio closures. But there's an alternative I'd like to talk about: indie art games, the growing retro handheld scene, and my decision to play the extensive library I already own on a Retroid Pocket 2S rather than chasing new expensive hardware.
50 Before I’m 50 – Visit the Lemmings Statue
As part of my Scottish road trip I mentioned on the Now page, I headed to Dundee as my partner had one thing she wanted to do (The V&A Museum) and I had one thing I wanted to do. To see the Lemmings Statue. The Lemmings Statue is a statue in a park close to...
Ownership vs Access - Enjoying Media by Finding and Preserving It Ourselves
In 2015, I wanted my mom to get me a new handheld gaming console.
#oneaday Day 776: Splatting Salmonids
Splatoon Raiders arrived yesterday, a day earlier than I was expecting it, and I've been playing it. It's a good time! It's the latest in an increasingly long line of titles from Nintendo that feel like video games used to feel like. It's not trying to be a movie, it's not trying to be an...
#4 | Video Games - The 2026 Release Window
Because of the work I do over on Bluesky posting about indie games, I keep a running list of upcoming games. The list includes release dates if I know them, but most of the games have a vague release window. And when I say vague I mean this: Looking at my spreadsheet right now, there are 23 titles that are scheduled to release this year so I would like to highlight 6 that I personally hope come out this year. You might be asking yourself, why 6? & the answer is that this is supposed to be a shor...
The day Championship Manager died
So as shared by somebody on the Amiga Addict Discord, today is the day that - if you play Championship Manager 97/98 for 30 seasons, on the 15th July 2026, you get an endgame screen, and encouragement to sign up as a play tester and a researcher for future games.1 I played Champ Man 97/98...
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#oneaday Day 764: Just games
There was yet another round of Tedious Discourse™ today over what the word "retro" really means, if anything, when it comes to video games. As always, there were lots of varying definitions, no agreement, and a bunch of people getting in a bit of a flap about it when their definitions of "retro" didn't line...